Sketches from my 1st visit to Finland

Just a Vietnamese-American visitor who passed through earlier this month on my two week road trip in Scandinavia + Finland. I didn’t draw these on-site, because the day I stopped by Sibelius Park (May 4), it was raining and the day I visited Suomenlinna (May 5), it was very windy. I had to make do with drawing from screenshots I took.

I love the culture, history, and food here, I definitely want to come back. I really love the language and using the little I tried to pick up for this trip. (I think I surprised a few people in my hunt for Hopeanuoli/Ginga manga to get as souvenirs. I reserved and bought some from Fantasiapelit!) I want to study Finnish more formally once I get my intermediate Spanish to advanced.

Also I was surprised to run into and chat with a good handful of Vietnamese residents here, more than any other country in northern Europe. (Generally we’re a loud, chatty, and nosy people, the complete opposite of Finns, but we like to congregate on coasts so I guess that’s the reason some Viets resettle in Finland.)